TB has re-emerged as a global killer in the 21st
century.Icons of Europe, a partner of WHO's Stop TB Partnership,
usethe arts and cultural research for
TB advocacy.The revenue of Chopin and The.Swedish
Nightingale (2003)
is donated to the TB fight >>
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Men and women apparently sick with 'consumption'
(TB)
at a British ward in the 19th century.
Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale raised funds for the Brompton Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest in 1848. Chopin died of TB in 1849.

Awarded the Nobel Price in Medicine 1905,
Robert Koch, the German physician and scientist, presented
his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)
in 1882 on the evening of March 24 (now World TB Day).
"He began by reminding the audience of terrifying statistics
... ".
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Dr Koch

TB & the Arts«
I consider it fundamental to link a disease like TB to the
art and culture world »
Dr Mario C. RaviglioneDirector, Stop TB, WHO

Icons of Europe n° 1 of 200-300 million hits of a
Google search for TB, Arts (17.Aug.
2012).¹

Investing in people and
national security

An editorial of the International Herald Tribune "Extreme
tuberculosis" (14 September 2006) concluded “Generosity is needed to fix
it”.

Icons of Europe countered in a letter to the IHT/NYT editor:
"It is not
a matter of charity and a patch-up, but about a global
objective of investing in people and the security of nations."

"In Europe, the revolutions of the 19th century were to a
large extent driven by fury over political oppression and despair over
the poor living conditions of the growing urban centres. These
conditions bred public health scourges such as tuberculosis and
cholera." - Source: page 66 of Chopin and The Swedish Nightingale (Icons of Europe,
2003).²